A Fort Carson lieutenant could become the first female Ranger, the Army said on its website.
The woman, whose name wasn't released, is a Fort Carson helicopter pilot and the only woman of 17 who attempted to complete the Ranger Training Assessment Course last month. Completing the course is a requirement for Ranger training.
The elite...

Imagine a place where kids don't dream of growing up to be firefighters.
Such a place is where Air Force Academy Master Sgt. Jeff Hackworth earned the Bronze Star Medal - by showing locals that fighting fire is an admirable craft of skill and bravery.
A career Air Force firefighter, Hackworth got back last summer from a year in Afghanistan...

A Colorado Springs hero got an honorary home Friday when the city's new Department of Veterans Affairs clinic was named for Pfc. Floyd Lindstrom.
The World War II Medal of Honor recipient was mostly unsung in his hometown before veterans groups and Congress came together to put his name on the 76,000-square-foot facility at Centennial...

Another 25 Fort Carson soldiers have wrapped up their work in Liberia and arrived at an Ebola quarantine site in the U.S., the post said Wednesday.
The return of the 25 from the 615th Engineer Company leaves the post with 10 soldiers remaining on the humanitarian mission to help the West African nation tackle the region's Ebola outbreak. The...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., new chairman of the Senate armed services' subcommittee on military personnel, has signaled he will defend retirement reforms proposed for a new generation of service members by the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.
Graham on Wednesday led Commission Chairman Alphonso Maldon Jr....

A recent column spurred Jerry Kaufman of Black Forest to send me an email that included a few memories of growing up on a farm in Nebraska.
In the email, Kaufman matter-of-factly mentioned Italian and German POWs working on the farm during World War II.
Wait, what? German prisoners of war? Working on Nebraska farms?
Perhaps it was a...

Fort Carson got a four-starred vote of confidence Monday from Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno.
In town to pin stars on the Army's newest general, Odierno heaped praise on the post's 4th Infantry Division and talked up the importance of its new mission to train troops in Europe.
Any compliment from the Army's top general is a boost for...

Two of six Fort Carson soldiers injured in a Friday night training accident remained hospitalized Monday as the post released more information on the staff sergeant who died in the wreck of a Stryker vehicle. One of the soldiers was in good condition and another was in serious but stable condition. Both were being treated at Penrose-St....

Fort Carson on Sunday identified the soldier who was killed in a training accident at the post. Staff Sgt. Justin L. Holt, 31, of Bogata, Texas, was killed and six were injured in a vehicle rollover accident Friday night. Four of the injured soldiers were treated and released from local hospitals, according to a news release from the post....

Cadets at the Air Force Academy recently took top honors at a Pennsylvania cybersecurity competition pitting them against their counterparts from other service academies.
It's a competition that involves tons of brains if little brawn as cadets battle to control computer networks and foil opposing hackers. It may seem like homework to some,...

The first step in reconfiguring the Defense Department's tangled computer networks came and went last fall with the highest honor for a technology change.
"No one noticed," Air Force Gen. John Hyten told a crowd of 2,000 during the 2015 Cyberspace Symposium at The Broadmoor.
Hyten was the top speaker at the symposium sponsored by Armed...